They’re Heeeeeeerrrrreee!

Been waiting for a month for this, and now Both Chimney Swifts AND Barn Swallows have arrived at my yard.  They rode in on the winds on the backside of a line of MASSIVE thunderstorms that passed through on Friday.  Now, although Hummingbirds have been reported in my area, AND I have FIVE Hummer feeders out, I haven’t gotten a single Hummer, YET.  Any day now I think one will come.  Next on the Ag-end, is the arrival of Cedar Waxwings to strip My Mulberry Trees clean,  That should start happening in two to three weeks.  Mourning Doves are building a nest in my Willow tree at eye level, five feet from the edge of my porch, making for EXCELLENT Photography.  Also a pair of Northern Cardinals have been seriously eyeballing the Eastern Red Cedar in front of my front windows so I may end up with a nest there, too.  Must get BOSS this week for the Doves to eat as well as other birds, and my suet feeders are empty, too. 

I won a Bronze Award on picli.com for a picture of a Starling I took in my willow tree.  The Starling was about 3 feet from the Dove nest, in the same tree.  I Have also had two other bird pictures on the front page of Picli.com.  One is a male Eastern Bluebird on the roof of a picnic shelter and the other is a very EMO Blue Jay at my platform feeder, which again, is about five feet from my Dove nest.

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